On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:46:27PM +0200, Tuomas Lukinmaa wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > No such thing as a temporary 404. > > No, there isn't, but 404 does not define whether the situation is > temporary or permanent. It is suitable for use in timeout situations. > > "No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or > permanent. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server > knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old > resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address." > > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.5 > > > The latter would be useful but need to be handled with > > care to avoid DoS... > > Umm, FProxy/Fred has DoS issues? Perhaps they should be fixed so that > such novelty (and more user friendly) features as backgrounding > transfers would not break them? If each transfer starts ten more transfers, this is a DoS. This is why we have to be careful implementing things like prefetch hints.
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